All Directors
Directors A - Z
Marjoleine Boonstra
Marjoleine Boonstra is a Dutch director and D.O.P with over 25 years of experience. Her documentaries always revolve around the theme: what keeps mankind alive. Her documentaries are screened at film festivals all over the world and have been awarded many times. She combines a poetic visual approach with a compassionate view on the world, which make her documentaries striking and touching.
Renko Douze
Walter Immerzeel in Moving Mountains
Renko Douze (1986) is a producer and filmmaker who in 2011 founded the production company Een van de jongens together with Hasse van Nunen. Douze has worked as a writer, director and editor for documentary films and series such as the children’s programme Het Klokhuis. He is an avid mountaineer, which proved useful during the filming of Moving Mountains.
Bibi Fadlalla
Mounira Al Solh in Dancing on the Ruins
Bibi Fadlalla (1978) is a Sudanese-Dutch filmmaker, living and working in the Netherlands. She holds a Masters degree in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and graduated from the Documentary Media Studies Program at the New School in New York. Fadlalla combines narrative storytelling with a strong cinematic language, using music and animation. Her documentary The Women of my Land (2020), in which she portrays artist Raquel van Haver, was nominated for the Dutch Golden Calf Award for Best Documentary Short 2021.
Carin Goeijers
Michel van der Aa in In Between Realities
Carin Goeijers (1967) is an independent documentary director from the Netherlands. Cinematic form plays an important role in her inventive way of storytelling. Her films have screened at several leading international filmfestivals including IDFA 2018, where her film But Now Is Perfect won a Special Jury Award for Best Dutch Documentary.
Aiman Hassani
Christian Lange in Five Senses
Director Aiman Hassani works with a variety of media, from documentary and fiction film to animation and games. Both as maker and advisor, he is committed to diversity and inclusion. He is known, among others, for the documentary Teekay de Salto Koning (2023), about a breakdancer from Eindhoven, and the short film Khata (2019), about male prostitution in Rotterdam. In 2024, he was selected for Berlinale Talents.
Stephane Kaas
Tamar Sharon in The Digital Dilemma
Stephane Kaas (Amsterdam, 1984) is a documentary filmmaker who combines documentary, animation, and fiction. His debut film about writer Etgar Keret won, among other awards, an International Emmy. In In Real Life I Have a Nose, he explores how webcomics use humor to address social issues. He has created TV series for VPRO and HUMAN and contributed to VPRO Tegenlicht episodes on animal languages, geo-engineering, and the relationship between finance and nature.